Take care of yourself. What you are doing is exhausting -to the spirit as well as the body. Been there...
Glad that Allie is still talking. Is the volcano Krakatoa?
I've also been listening to the audio of the Nuala books - reader not great, but adequate, I can get into the story without getting enraged at the vehicle of transmission. I do keep fantasizing about what Full Cast Audio could do with the Allie stories.